Unpublished typescripts by David Malouf.

Material relating to the war service, death and memorialisation of Captain James Shaw Rose Macdonald, commonly known as Jim.

Correspondence to Tom Shapcott from various correspondents, including Judith Rodriguez, from 1969 to 2010. Includes faxes and printouts of emails from 1995 to 2010.

Box 27
Folder 18 - 1980 (1); Folder 19 1980 (2); Folder 20 1976-1977; Folder 21 1978.

Box 28
Folder 1 1979 (1); Folder 2 1979 (2); Folder 3 1979 (3); Folder 4 1969-1979; Folder 5 1979-1980; Folder 6 1980-1982.

Box 29
Folder 1 1981 (1); Folder 2 1981 (2); Folder 3 1982 (1); Folder 4 1982 (2); Folders 5 and 6 1983; Folder 7 1984 (1); Folder 8 1984 (2); Folder 9 1984 (3).

Box 30
Folder 1 1986; Folder 2 1987; Folder 3 1988 (1); Folder 4 1988 (2); Folder 5 1989; Folder 6 1990-1994; Folder 7 1995-1998 Faxes/Emails; Folder 8 1999-2010 Faxes/Emails.

Ephemera relating to awards won by Malouf.
Comprises flyers for:
1982 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year - Fly Away Peter.
1988 Programme for the Inaugural Pascall Prize: Australian 'Critic of the Year', won by David Malouf.
2004 Certificate of Appreciation to David Malouf, Winner of the 2004 One Book One Brisbane Reading Campaign.
2010 winner International Awards — John D. Criticos Prize. Awarded to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction - for Ransom.
2010 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal ... presented to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - for Ransom.
2011 shortlisted International Awards — International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - for Ransom.

5 files of material relating to family history research undertaken by Michael White about the Nicholson, Morisset and Vaux families including correspondence, genealogical research notes, photographs, family trees, newspaper cuttings and a small collection of rugby union ephemera.

Correspondence from Thomas Shapcott – 151 letters (1975 to 2011)
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1975 to 1977 - 12 letters.
[File 2]: 1982 to 1989 – 71 letters
[File 3]: undated, 1990 to 2011 – 68 letters

Correspondence from Rosemary Dobson [Rosemary de Brissac Dobson – Rosemary Bolton] and Alec Bolton / Brindabella Press – 37 letters (1974 – 2012).
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1974 to 2012

Correspondence from Jeffrey Smart – 26 letters (undated, 1978 to 2012)
[File 1]: 1978 to 1991; 1999; 2012. In a letter of 13 Sep 1980 Smart writes: ‘Dear David, It’s midnight. I’ve come down to the studio to look again at your portrait […] it is, I feel sure, the best picture I have ever painted.’

Comprised of two drafts:

1. 'The Aspern Papers', opera in one act from the story by Henry James, typescript with extensive emendations and cut and paste inserts, 21 leaves, [David Malouf’s 2017 note: First written for the Canadian composer Owen Underhill. Commission fell through. Set by Melbourne composer Eve Duncan. Not yet commissioned for performance].
2. 'The Aspern Papers : a chamber opera. Scene One'. Libretto by David Malouf. Based on a story by Henry James, 82 pages, with letter from Eve Duncan, 6 Aug 2013. Spiral bound.